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West Coast Mining album
- Date
- [Circa 1880s to 1912]
- By
- Divis, Joseph, 1885-1967
- Reference
- PA1-o-531
- Description
Very clear views of West Coast gold and coal mines (mainly in the Reefton subdivision), and mining towns, taken by unidentified photographers, except for one of "Wondrous Waiuta New Zealand" Jos. Divis Photo (p 27).
Views on various roads include the Reefton to Blackspoint Road, Reefton to Westport Road, the Buller Gorge, the Maruia Road alongside the Inangahua River, Progress Road, and fording a river near Progress Mill.
Images relating to mines include a winter picture of the old Wealth (of Nations) waterwheel covered in icicles; and gold batteries at various stages of development. Gold mines include the Progress Mine, Wealth of Nations Mine, Welcome Mine, the Mountain Battery at Boatman's Creek, the Blackwater Mine and the Globe Mine. Coal mines include views of Lanky's Creek Coal Mine, and the Lanky's Creek to Energetic coal tramway showing new bridges and coal miners.
One photograph (p 9) shows several men "beach combing" for gold on the West Coast. There are a number of articles in The West Coast Times, Otago Witness and Otago Daily Times talking about the success or otherwise of seeking gold by this method in the 1860s to 1880s (see Papers Past paperspast.natlib.govt.nz, search under "beach combing" "west coast")
Inscriptions: Album page - "To Messrs E & A Spencer with best wishes from D Turnbull, Reefton, N.Z., 13/10/1911, 2/6/1912"
Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
Physical Description: Album with dark grey cover, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 19.0 x 27.5 cm
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Copy negatives available at 1/2-C-035007; 1/2-C-048094 to 1/2-C-048095; 1/2-C-051731; 1/2-C-055750; 1/2-C-148411 to 1/2-C-148415; 1/2-C-159089 to 1/2-C-159096
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs, Album with dark grey cover, entitled "Photographs" in gold lettering; 19.0 x 27.5 cm
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Hauling a boiler to a (Reefton?) gold mine, West Coast Region
Date: [ca 1910]
From: West Coast Mining album
Reference: PA1-o-531-35
Description: Scene on a road leading from West Coast bush, showing a team of horses hauling a boiler to a (Reefton?) gold mine. Photograph taken circa 1910 by an unidentified photographer. 1/2-C-010831 is a cropped version of the original Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Shifting machinery in the mountains Possibly shows the boiler described in Friends in chains / by Bob Henderson. Wellington [N.Z.] : A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1961, chapter 4 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 20.3 x 15.5 cm, on album page